In the speech, excerpted below, Kennedy announced that he would be sending civil rights legislation to Congress; that legislation was passed after his death and signed into law by President Lyndon B.

But such an approach was problematic. By not addressing civil rights publicly and comprehensively, Kennedy was forced to address racial incidents on a case by case basis -- often after they had ...

One of the keys to John F Kennedy's, (known as JFK ... and the full emergence of the problems of Vietnam and civil rights, did questions arise about whether Kennedy's language outpaced his ...